Bookshop-store

A rich assortment of products inspired by the MCBA collection

Photo: Jonas Hänggi

Opening hours

Tuesday-Wednesday10:00 - 18:00
Thursday10:00 - 20:00
Friday-Sunday10:00 - 18:00
MondayClosed

The MCBA Bookshop-Store is accessible without an entrance ticket to the museum.

Contact: +41 21 318 44 60
shop.mcba@plateforme10.ch

Special hours

17.04.202510:00 - 18:00
18.04.202510:00 - 18:00
21.04.202510:00 - 18:00
29.05.202510:00 - 18:00

All special hours

9.06.2025Closed
1.08.202510:00 - 18:00
22.09.2025Closed
24.12.202510:00 - 17:00
25.12.2025Closed
26.12.202510:00 - 18:00
31.12.202510:00 - 17:00
1.01.2026Closed

A specialized shop just a very short walk from the train station – and open Sundays. Fine publications, great gift ideas, and exclusive products…

Along with the catalogues of current and past shows, MCBA staff has made a selection of titles that should interest both the neophyte and the knowledgeable professional. Our children’s section features a choice of artbooks and games to develop kids’ creativity. Postcards, reproductions, the art of entertaining, textiles, jewelry, leather goods, stationary, and decorative objects… a rich assortment of products inspired by the MCBA collection, the fine arts, and PLATEFORME 10.
Armchairs and low tables make book-browsing a must.

Orders: shop.mcba@plateforme10.ch

Shipping costs for Switzerland:
Publications (Espace Projet, Espace Focus, Jardin d’Hiver): CHF 2.-
Catalogues, books: CHF 7.-
Posters: CHF 14.-

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MCBA exclusive products

Babi Badalov tote bag

Babi Badalov, Your Right is My Left / Your Left is My Right tote bag, 2024

Reproduction of a detail from the mural artwork created for the Babi Badalov. Xenopoetri exhibition

Ökotex cotton (340 g/m²)
38 x 42 x 10 cm
CHF 20.-

The artist, find out more

Puzzle Eugène Burnand

Puzzle Eugène Burnand Taureau dans les Alpes (Bull in the Alps)

500 pieces / 46 x 32,5 cm

CHF 25.-

The artwork, find out more

Puzzle Ernest Biéler

Puzzle Ernest Biéler L’Eau mystérieuse (The Mysterious Water)

500 pieces / 60 x 27,5 cm

CHF 25.-

The artwork, find out more.

Puzzle Félix Vallotton

Puzzle Félix Vallotton La paresse (Idleness)

500 pieces / 46 x 32,5 cm

CHF 25.-

The artwork, find out more

Creation kit

Creation kit, from 6 years old

To experiment artistic techniques through creation.

CHF 9,50

Publications

Alice Pauli: Galeriste, collectionneuse, mécène

Camille Lévêque-Claudet with Magali Junet, Alice Pauli: Galeriste, collectionneuse, mécène, Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, Fage Editions, 2025, 200 p.

CHF 32.-

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Thalassa! Thalassa! L’imaginaire de la mer

Danielle Chaperon and Catherine Lepdor, Octopus Editions, 2024, fr., 208 p., 187 ill. ISBN: 978-2-900314-48-7

CHF 29.-

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Uriel Orlow. Forest Times

Nicole Schweizer (ed.), Uriel Orlow. Forest Times, with contributions by Lucia Pietroiusti and Ana Teixeira Pinto fr./angl., 222p., co-edition K. Verlag, Berlin, and MCBA, Lausanne, 2024.

CHF 30.-

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André Tommasini. Une vie à sculpter

Pierre-Henri Foulon (ed.), with texts by Eleonora Del Duca, Lorena Ehrbar and Pierre-Henri Foulon, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2024, Coll. Espace Focus, no. 12, fr., 48 p., 28 ill.

CHF 8.-

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Surréalisme. Le Grand Jeu

Pierre-Henri Foulon, Juri Steiner (eds.), Surrealism. Le Grand Jeu, with texts by Paolo Baggi, Gorge Bataille, Boris Bergmann, Pierre-Henri Foulon, Susan Laxton and Juri Steiner, fr., 156 p., 63 ill. co-published by Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne and Scheidegger&Spiess, Zurich, 2024.
ISBN: 978-3-03942-192-3

CHF 29.-

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Gina Proenza

Nicole Schweizer (ed.), with contributions by Salome Hohl and Sabrina Tarasoff, and an interview with the artist by Nicolas Brulhart fr./eng., 64 p., Coédition MCBA, Lausanne / JRP Editions, Genève, 2024.

CHF 30.-

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Babi Badalov. Xenopoetri

Pierre-Henri Foulon (ed.), with texts by Pierre-Henri Foulon and Julie Abbou, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2024, Coll. Espace Projet, n° 5, fr./en., 52 p., 23 ill.

CHF 8.-

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Immersion. Les origines: 1949 – 1969

Choghakate Kazarian and Camille Lévêque-Claudet (ed.), Immersion. Les origines/The Origins: 1949-1969, Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Hazan, 2023, fr./eng., 152 p., 106 ill.

CHF 60.90

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Steinlen. Coups de griffe et patte de velours

Catherine Lepdor, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2023, Coll. Espace Focus, n° 11, fr., 48 p., 41 ill.

CHF 8.-

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Groupe CAYC. Buenos Aires – Lausanne

Camille de Alencastro and Elisabeth Jobin, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2023, Coll. Espace Focus, no 10, fr., 48 p., 43 ill.

CHF 8.-

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Emily Jacir. We Ate the Wind

Nicole Schweizer (ed.), with a text by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2023, Coll. Espace Projet, no 4, fr./en., 40 p., 20 ill.

CHF 5.-

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Jardin d’Hiver #2 Poems of Change

Simon Würsten Marin (ed.), Jardin d’Hiver #2. Poems of Change, with contributions by Ali-Eddine Abdelkhalek, Marie DuPasquier, and Simon Würsten Marin. Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2023, Jardin d’Hiver coll., no. 2, fr./en., 32 p., 20 ill.

CHF 5.–

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Silvie Defraoui. Le tremblement des certitudes

Laurence Schmidlin (ed.), Silvie Defraoui. Le tremblement des certitudes, with an essay by Laurence Schmidlin and a preface by Juri Steiner, Copublication by Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne and Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich, 2023, en./fr./ge., 120 p., 76 ill.

CHF 35.-

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Balthus dessinateur

Camille Lévêque-Claudet, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2023, Coll. Espace Focus, n° 9, fr., 32 p., 27 ill.

CHF 5.-

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Lubaina Himid

Michael Wellen (ed.), Lubaina Himid, with contributions by Amrita Dhallu, Christine Eyene, Lisa Merrill, Griselda Pollock, Magda Stawarska-Beavan, Carol Tulloch, Michael Wellen, and texts by Lubaina Himid
Tate Publishing, London, 2021 (en.) and 2022 (fr.), 192 p., 100 ill.

CHF 35.-

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René Auberjonois – Louis Soutter. Les candeurs premières

Catherine Lepdor, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2022, Espace Focus series, no. 8, fr., 32 p., 27 ill.

CHF 5.-

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Resistance Anew – Culture, Artworks & Democracy

Bernard Fibicher (ed.), with essays by Mieke Bal, Pascal Chabot, Markus Gabriel, Isabelle Graw, Mary Jane Jacob, Plínio Prado, Andrew Ross, Gregory Sholette, Markus Steinweg, and Michel Thévoz. Co-published by the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts of Lausanne and JRP Editions, Geneva, 2022, 2 available editions: en./fr., 176 p.

CHF 25.–

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Naissance et vie des formes. Dessins contemporains de la collection

Laurence Schmidlin (éd), édition MCBA, 2022. Coll. Espace Focus, n° 6, fr./eng., 32 p., 54 ill.

CHF 5.-

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Francis Alÿs. As Long as I’m Walking

Nicole Schweizer (ed.) With texts by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Luis Pérez-Oramas, and Judith Rodenbeck, and an introduction by Nicole Schweizer.Co-ed. Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts of Lausanne and JRP Editions, Geneva, 2021, fr./en., 160 p., 277 ill.

CHF 50.-

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Aloïse. Le ricochet solaire

Texts by Jacqueline Porret-Forel and Céline Muzelle. Foreword by Pascale Marini, Sarah Lombardi, Catherine Lepdor. 5 Continents Editions, Milan / Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne / Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, 2012, fr., 136 p., 140 ill.

CHF 42.-

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Jean Otth. Travaux/Works, 1964-2013

Nicole Schweizer (dir.), with essays by Robert Ireland, Agathe Jarczyk, Elisabeth Jobin, Geneviève Loup and Nicole Schweizer. A coedition by the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne & Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich, 2020. fr./en., 256 p., 381 ill.

CHF 39.-

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Gift-vouchers

Treat your friends and family to a cultural present!

The gift vouchers may be used

  • at the Bookshop-store
  • to buy tickets, private guided tours, book a place in a workshop…

Upon purchasing a gift voucher, a wish card is offered: you can choose one of five images from the MCBA collection.

Value: from CHF 10.-
To buy at the Bookshop-store, or online (Ticket-shop vouchers only)

Buy a gift voucher